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What can’t be measured could break your business
, UX Collective - Medium
Burned out from proving design’s value? Let’s change the conversation
Ornament and Culture
, UX Collective - Medium
Ornament and cultureInterface as social signifier.Villa Müller in Prague by Adolf Loos, 1928–30.. © Flickr User adamgut, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0In 1913, at the height of the Art Nouveau movement, Adolf Loos, an architect and theorist, was appalled and aghast. Everywhere he looked, ornamentation was spoiling his beloved Vienna.
Loos was a believer in the future. Inspired by his visit to the Chicago World’s Fair, he became a devotee of the Sullivan mandate of “form follows function”. In Loos’ eyes, the old world, with its dedication to complicated folk art adorning every surface, was dying. The industrial revolution, and the arrival of automated systems and management of humans, promised a new frontier. Gone was the old folkways of handcraft and guilds. Loos, like many intellectuals of his day, saw this as a pivotal evolutionary fulcrum for humans, and he was excited.
Gemini 3 For UI Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google. It is not just an incremental update it’s a radical shift toward an agentic-first experience. The model is optimized for multimodality and long-horizon planning. In other words, it doesn’t just answer prompts better; it can think, plan, and act more autonomously across different modalities.
In this article, I want to show you 5 cases of using Gemini 3 for UI design tasks
Rake Weighting: How to Weight Survey Data with Multiple Variables
, MeasuringU
Having a representative sample is ideal when making inferences about your customer or user population. In practice, it can be difficult to recruit the right proportion of respondents, leaving your sample out of balance with the population.
One way to adjust for being off balance is to weight the data you collected to get the sample back into proportion with the population percentages (such as for variables like age, geographic region, or experience levels).
Cultivating the human capabilities that matter most
, UX Collective - Medium
Developing product discovery judgment through psychological safety, collaboration, and systematic practices.Diagram created by author using Google Gemini AI text-to-image creatorHow do you develop the judgment to decide what software is worth building when AI makes building it faster and cheaper?
This article explores how to systematically strengthen discovery judgment, whether you’re building solo or as a team. For background on why judgment becomes the critical constraint when AI accelerates execution, see my previous article “When building software became easier with AI, deciding became harder.”
How to re-use old User Research: the weakness many organizations face
, UX Collective - Medium
Fewer people than ever are willing to dig through old customer insights
Creating UI Assets with ChatGPT
, UX Planet - Medium
ChatGPT is a versatile tool that can be used for all kinds of purposes. I’ve already demonstrated how to use it for UI design
UI Design with ChatGPT 5
UI Design with Midjourney
, UX Planet - Medium
Midjourney is a great AI imagery generator. The latest version (v7) is capable of producing decent-quality visual output. A lot of articles and videos show how Midjourney can generate different kinds of visuals, but a few demonstrate UI design output.
In this article, I want to share a prompt template that you can use to generate UI design with Midjourney, tips & tricks on how to achieve better results with the tool, and examples of the output generated by the tool.
What Metrics Has MeasuringU Created?
, MeasuringU
At MeasuringU®, we don’t just use UX metrics—we create them.
But what have we created, and what have we just used or extended?
Stop being so humble
, UX Planet - Medium
Why it’s time for content designers to rise upWe’ve all heard it, and let’s be honest, most of us have lived it.
“We’ll plug in the content later.”
